Take Your Aim (New) · Rocket

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11, and 11 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
TAKE YOUR AIM (NEW) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 10, 26, 30, 46, 50 and 2 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 48 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Your Aim (New)?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Take Your Aim (New) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take Your Aim (New)?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 10, 26, 30, 46, 50 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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